who here was on tumblr 4+ years ago
I was
everyone who makes “every john green book” posts: i haven’t actually read any of these books but i see that teenage girls like them and often relate to the characters, especially when they say pretentious fakedeep stuff so rather than acknowledging that maybe this author is attempting to portray the realities of being a young teenager, which often include being kinda pretentious and fake deep, im just going to make fun of him and make young girls who relate to his characters feel alienated and excluded because i like to shame people out of enjoying media that i personally don’t like. since i haven’t read the books, i also don’t know that john green is trying to show how damaging it is when we romanticize other people, especially when boys idealize girls they have crushes on. i don’t know that john green’s books end with the greasy white nerd boy realizing that teenage girls are just people so i’m going to continue making snarky posts because that’s easier than trying to understand something i don’t like. this is really helpful & i feel that i am using my time productively
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